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“So cast down I did.” Looking at the hilt now, I can still feel what it was like when lightning touched the blade for the first - and last - time. It was powerful, blindingly so. I could have struck him down so easily, but I didn’t. I let it pass to the ground, the lightning only bouncing to his calf as it does so. Those burns took away any fight left in him.
For a moment, I felt my blood hot again. I was a ten-year old once more, standing against someone - this time - actually harmful to women.
“Ah. I think I have heard of it.” Airin wearily recognizes the events which soon followed even before I say anything.
A lawsuit. Not from that giant, no, but her. That woman. Amournrana. For some fucking reason she - and she not alone in this - believe it to be an excessive use of force. And persistent she was in getting me to pay for the damages done to her paramour. The public wasn’t the only one who questioned such, of course - those “players-of-art” as they were called, were also present during my trials to see if my use of the “art” was justifiable in terms of self-defense and defense of others, but even they recognized it sooner than those folks did.
It was just… a complete waste of time and money. My family’s time and money. My mother’s time and money. As for the publishing house, they cut me loose the second my apprenticeship ended. I was someone else’s problem now.
A footnote in the never-ending stacks of broadsheets - that’s what I amounted to. A fucked up thing who - against all odds - manage to fuck up so badly I had to leave the province, the entire region entirely if I were to find employment.
( Quite the son I was. )
“That - is - some tough shit.” Taking residence next to me, Airin pats my shoulder. “It is… quite all right.”
( It took another while before my eyes stopped being watery and I regained my composure. It was… comforting, in a way, to air out such things. )
Uh. Wow. This matter has went on for far, far longer than I expected. I’ve inconvenienced her quite enough - let’s end things on a good note.
